SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 1106
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Reported from the Committee on Local Government, April 22, 2004, with recommendation that the House Committee Substitute for Senate Committee Substitute for Senate Bill No. 1106 Do Pass.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To authorize the conveyance of tracts of land owned by the state, with an emergency clause.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section 1. 1. The governor is hereby authorized and empowered to sell, transfer, grant, and convey all interest in fee simple absolute in a tract of land owned by the state known as Glore Psychiatric Museum to the St. Joseph Museum, Inc. The property to be conveyed is more particularly described as follows:
Commencing at the northeast corner of Section 10, Township 57 North, Range 35 West, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri; thence with the east line of the northeast quarter of said section south 00 degrees 12 minutes 27 seconds east, 834.22 feet; thence departing from said line south 89 degrees 47 minutes 41 seconds west, 319.99 feet; thence north 00 degrees 12 minutes 28 seconds west, 295.85 feet; thence north 45 degrees 11 minutes 59 seconds west, 204.32 feet; thence south 89 degrees 54 minutes 02 seconds west, 49.81 feet to the Point of Beginning; thence south 89 degrees 54 minutes 02 seconds west, 300.01 feet; thence north 00 degrees 07 minutes 51 seconds west, 93.00 feet; thence south 89 degrees 54 minutes 01 seconds west, 299.98 feet; thence north 00 degrees 06 minutes 06 seconds west, 271.79 feet; thence north 89 degrees 54 minutes 24 seconds east, 609.78 feet; thence south 01 degrees 25 minutes 41 seconds west, 364.85 feet to the Point of Beginning.
2. The governor is hereby authorized and empowered to sell, transfer, grant, and convey all interest in the artifacts, exhibits, and artifact cases owned by the state which are contained in the property described in section 1 known as the Glore Psychiatric Museum to the St. Joseph Museum, Inc.
3. Consideration for the conveyance described in subsection 1 of this section shall be for the sum of one dollar.
4. The attorney general shall approve the form of the instrument of conveyance.
Section 2. 1. The director of the department of mental health is hereby authorized and empowered to sell, transfer, grant, and convey all interest in fee simple absolute in property held in trust on behalf of the state by the department of mental health in the county of Buchanan. The property to be conveyed is more particularly described as follows:
All of a tract of land in the Northeast Quarter of Section 4, Township 55 North, Range 33 West, Buchanan County, Missouri, more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the East line of said Buchanan County and the North line of said Section 4; thence South 100 feet; thence North 89º 35' West, 313.50 feet; thence South 488.58 feet to the true point of beginning; thence South 220 feet; thence North 89º 35' West, 136.60 feet; thence North 220 feet; thence South 89º 35' East, 136.60 feet to the true point of beginning. Subject to all public and private roads and easements.
Also an Easement for ingress and egress over the existing roadway between State Route H and the above described property, said roadway being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the East line of said Buchanan County and the North line of said Section 4; thence South 100 feet; thence North 89º 35' West, 313.50 feet; thence South 488.58 feet; thence North 89º 35' West, 136.60 feet to the true point of beginning; thence South 415.51 feet; thence South 34º 28' West, 264.34 feet to the Northerly right-of-way line, of State Route H; thence North 34º 28' East, 282.65 feet; thence North 400 feet; thence South 89º 35' East, 50 feet to the true point of beginning. As first established in a Warranty Deed dated January 13, 1978 and recorded in Book 1403 at Page 81, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Buchanan County, Missouri, executed by Kathleen Gibson and subsequently established in a Quit Claim Deed dated April 26, 1994 and recorded in Book 1986 at Page 242 in said Recorder's Office.
2. The commissioner of administration shall set the terms and conditions for the sale as the commissioner deems reasonable. Such terms and conditions may include, but are not limited to, the number of appraisals required, the time, place, and terms of the sale.
3. The attorney general shall approve the form of the instrument of conveyance.
Section B. Because the merging of the Glore Psychiatric Museum with the St. Joseph Museum, Inc. is essential in order to preserve the operation of the Glore Psychiatric Museum, and to provide necessary funding for the department of mental health, section A of this act is deemed necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, welfare, peace and safety, and is hereby declared to be an emergency act within the meaning of the constitution, and section A of this act shall be in full force and effect upon its passage and approval.